Magnus Carlsen DESTROYED By #1 Female Player In History w/ Jaw-Dropping 4 Move SHOCKER!

Good evening chess friends. What if Alfred Hitchcock had been a chess commentator? Would that not have been the coolest thing ever? Just a random thought I had. But anyway, today we're going to be taking a look at one of the most epic takedowns of the current world's number one chess goat, Magnus Carlsen, that you're ever likely to witness, at the hands of the greatest female chess goat to ever exist, Judith Polgar. It features a winning combination Judith Polgar's tactical depravity and Orwellian board vision know absolutely no bounds in this game, being totally unconstrained by any moral hesitation or even common decency, as they shouldn't be. You're going to see Magnus go into a state of utter shock and panic as he desperately tries to Magnus Carlsen his way out of it, but it's to no avail. Judith Polgar tears into his position like a honey badger with a snake, flawlessly converting the W, not unlike the real-life Beth Harmon that she is, a character who I should probably give some credit to being the inspiration for this video, as I am currently re-watching The Queen's Gambit on Netflix, which if you haven't seen it, you really should. There's also the documentary Queen of Chess on there as well, which is actually about Judith Polgar's life, so both are not to be missed. But anyway, let's go ahead and dive right into this most merciless manhandling. Or is it womanhandling? I think it is womanhandling. At any rate, Magnus Carlsen has the white pieces in this rapid encounter, played in Mexico City in 2012, and he opens with Nf3. Judith Polgar responds Nf6, we have c4, central control, g6, Nc3, the flea on Kido, e4, going into a King's Indian type deal with d6, d4, and a ringside wrassling. White has been allowed to erect his big beautiful center here, but it will of course not go unchallenged for long, and after Magnus plays h3, just ruling out any Bg4 shenanigans, we do have the mainline move e5, striking a d4. Magnus pushes d5, per the opening theory, just taking the space, Judith puts a knight on the rim, which is often said to be grim, but in this position, it's considered to be pretty okay, as this has been played by a number of elite players, including the likes of Garry Kasparov, Hikaru Nakamura, and Magnus Carlsen himself. Be3 is next, and now we get a bit of an oddity, Qe8, violating a very well-known opening principle that says if a move looks really weird, there's a pretty good chance that it's not very good. And this move is no exception, according to the engine anyway, which is now giving about a 1-pawn advantage to white. But this move has been seen before, and it does actually serve a purpose, which, as far as I can tell, has something, or maybe everything, to do with the plan of playing a knight to h5, followed by a quick f5, when after a trade of pawns on that square, the knight will be defended by the queen, the fine details of which I'll go ahead and leave to your very apt imaginations. Only trouble is, Magnus is under no obligation to even allow knight to h5, as evidenced by his top engine reply, g4, simply preventing it. So Judith puts a knight on c5 instead, doubling up on e4. Knight to d2 is your standard defense, opening the queen's eyes to the pawn on g4, which will be needing some additional defense very soon, and if you don't know why, you will be finding out in exactly three moves. We have a5, preventing b4 to boot the knight out of its newfound home. Bishop to e2, c6, challenging the central spearhead, as one does. Rook to g1 from Magnus, needlessly overprotecting the pawn on g4, so that after king to h8, he can play the move that the computer says he should have played instead of rook to g1, which is h4. But it is giving him a winning advantage, worth almost a pawn and a half here, so we shan't nitpick too heavily. g5 is now on the cards, with a tempo-gaining attack on the knight, hence the preemptive retreat to g8, which, unlike knight to d7, keeps the light-squared bishop's view of f5 unimpeded, enabling black to meet Magnus's next move, queen to c2, with a well-supported f5. Why Judith doesn't play it, instead opting for the rather passive bishop to d7, I don't rightly know. Probably for the same reason that I can't easily tell you why the engine says that f5 was black's best move in the position. Other than citing the rather generic principle that says whenever you're facing a brutal kingside assault, it's often best to counter with an aggressive move of your own, especially when it attacks the center. But Judith is not without a plan here, losing though it may be, and after Magnus castles his king, we see that it involves a capture on d5, removing a defender of the e6 square, which Magnus could just replace with another pawn, but he opts for the much stronger move, knight takes d5, occupying a beautiful central post, while leaving black's pawn on d6 backward and weak. Of course, this does allow knight to e6, which is Judith's supposed justification for this, eyeing a couple of dark-squared holes in the white position, enabling her to meet h5 with the move g5, defended by the knight, thus keeping the kingside good and closed, and this seems to be a pretty good practical try, as evidenced by the fact that in this position, Magnus Carlsen fails to find his most crushing move. Pause the video if you'd like to take a crack at it, and while you're doing so, why not consider a totally free of charge lifetime subscription to the channel, and a gentle prodding of that like button to show how much you enjoy it? You probably won't regret it. What really ought to be played here, is knight to b6, attacking the rook, when after it moves, let's say to d8, there comes knight to f3, hitting the undefended pawn on d6, as well as the inadequately defended pawn on g5 with piece number 2. And how's black supposed to defend both? Maybe queen to e7? Negative, because now the knight can just go right back to d5, forcing the queen back to e8, when after the pawn on g5 falls, the engine's given about a 3-pawn advantage to white. Which I have absolutely no problem believing, and since that's all that really matters, how about we get right back to the game, where after this pawn push to g5, we do not have the best move, knight to b6, but rather, the rather passive and pointless, king to b1, when if Judith were to play h6, defending the pawn on g5, she would enjoy her best possible chance of survival. But instead, we have bishop to a4, defended by the queen, attacking the queen, which Magnus is of course not free to move, lest he drop an entire exchange, so knight to b3 just might be best here, but Magnus's move b3 seems to be quite strong as well, the attacked bishop retreats to c6, and now comes knight to b6, putting a question to the rook on a8, which Judith would love to keep on a file, supporting a4, in an attempt to crack that file open, so that she can try and get to that white king, Shawshank Redemption style, but rook to a7 or to a6 would of course invite a discovered attack by one of these two lurking bishops, so we do instead have rook to d8, queen to c3, attacking the pawn on a5, which black has no good way to defend, but Judith's unperturbed, she drops her knight into f4, hitting the bishop on e2, Magnus retreats it to f1, at which point you might be a bit surprised to learn that black's strongest move in this position is the one Judith plays next, h6. How could this be? The pawn on g5 was no longer in any danger, so was it really so necessary to defend it? Well no it wasn't, but it's not about protecting that pawn anymore, it's about preventing white from playing h6 himself, giving up a pawn of his own in order to open up the h file, so he can try to be a friend to that black king, Shawshank Redemption style, but after this move h6, Magnus really doesn't have anything much better than just taking the pawn on a5, when if Judith were to play something like knight to f6, increasing the pressure on e4, she'd have a pretty decent chance of holding the fort down, seeing that her king is now quite safe, whereas the white king can potentially come under fire down the half open to a file, along which black will almost certainly activate a rook, if and when the white knight ever vacates the b6 square, where it's not doing anything particularly useful other than preventing rook to a8, but Judith is still in hyper aggressive mode here, and she once again lashes out with the very bold, very brash, and totally unsound pawn push to f5, a losing move, but it's one that really ought to get full credit for creativity, seeing that if Magnus were to capture with his e pawn, well then the move e4 would suddenly be on the cards, bringing to life that lurking sniper on g7, and then if the black queen were to make her way into f6, well, I think you can fairly easily imagine a scenario where that could pose a serious threat to the long-term health of the white king, so we do have the much better move, and white's only winning one, g takes f5, removing defense from the pawn on h5, which Judith wastes no time in capturing, attacking Magnus's rook, he slides it over to e1, we have knight to f6, doubling up on e4, Magnus puts his knight back on d5, blocking the bishop's diagonal, of course this does allow rook to a8 now, hitting the white queen, she goes to b4, attacking d6, rook f to d8 defends, and this brings us to what is probably the easiest quiz position I'll ever show you, pick a move for white here, pick any move, and it'll probably be just fine, knight takes f4 is winning, knight takes f6 is winning, pushing a4 is winning, even if you try and blunder with something like bishop to e2, it doesn't even work, since after knight takes e2, apparently rook to h1 is winning, and I was going to try and explain exactly why, but that line ended up being a little too complicated, so we'll just go ahead and look at the move now played by Magnus, which is f3, looks pretty sensible right? He's solidifying his structure a bit, adding some defense to e4, but would you suspect me of falling into my old habit of intentionally misspeaking for my own sick amusement if I told you that this move is actually a catastrophic blunder, gifting unto black a piece-winning combination? Feel free to pause and ponder if you think you've got what it takes to work it all out, and fair warning, it will require of you a world-class level of board vision. The devastating move, now played by the queen of chess herself, is queen to h4, which does a couple of things, the most obvious of which is that it attacks the rook on e1. Okay, no big deal, Magnus slides it over to c1, but now we get to see the other problem with this move, queen to h4, come into play, as the black queen is now sitting directly across from her enemy counterpart, putting them into a very unhealthy horizontal relationship, and I do know what that sounds like, but come on guys, I don't mean it that way, just happens by accident, I don't know why, but what I do know is that after bishop takes d5, however white chooses to recapture, Magnus does it with his c pawn, black now has knight takes d5, exploiting the pin on white's e pawn, or his c pawn if e takes d5 had been played instead, the knight is of course immune to capture, lest white lose his queen, which is currently under attack by the knight, as is the bishop on e3, which sadly, white has no good way to defend. Now if his queen were able to retreat to any one of these dark squares, things would be quite different, but black has everything covered, and Magnus simply has no way to avoid losing material, a horrifying realization to be sure, prompting his next move, which is the bishop takes g5, so that he can at least get a pawn out of the deal, but after queen takes bishop, rook takes queen, knight takes queen, and the attacked rook retreats to g2, white is left with only one measly pawn for his one piece deficit, aka a losing material disadvantage, when if nothing else, Judith can just go ahead and grab the pawn on a2 here, but she opts for the equally winning d5 instead. Magnus struggles on for a bit, as you can see, and he even gets his passed pawn to f6, but there's really not a whole lot else he can do, as black's position is just way too easy to play, we see a pair of pieces come off the board, simplifying matters further, not a whole lot worth commenting on here, but I'm going to keep talking anyway, because I guess that's my job. We do get this sort of pseudo fork of the white rooks here, with knight to d3, to which Magnus responds rook to d2, kind of sort of pinning the knight, which could just capture on c1, and black would still be winning, but Judith decides to go another way, with rook c to d7, Magnus pushes a pawn, trying to get what activity he can, but after another pair of pieces come off the board, and Judith starts pushing her h pawn, the probability of a last minute swindling is very rapidly dwindling, Magnus starts pushing his a pawn, but after rook to h2, he's finally had his fill, and in this position decides it's high time that he tender his resignation, seeing that his knight is now under attack, and it can only retreat to g1, which would allow rook to h1, pinning it to the king, when after rook to c1 defending, there would surely follow bishop to c5, defended by the knight, attacking it again, when if it were to move, well then the rooks come off the board, black grabs the pawn on f6, and that's pretty much a wrap. So there you have it folks, let me know in the comments if you're a big fan of Judith Polgar, and if you're not, I would invite you to explain yourself, because there's really no reason you shouldn't be, she's about as badass as they come, ferocious attacker, a notorious table turner, as demonstrated by this incredible comeback from a dead loss position, taking down the world's number one with an absolutely stunning tactic, a true bolt from the blue if I've ever seen one, but anywho, as always, thank you so much for joining me here today, always watch your undefended pieces, especially your queen, try to stay out of unhealthy horizontal relationships, and then stick around for this next video here, I can promise you, it will not disappoint, take care of yourselves, take care of each other, whatever that means to you, and I will be seeing you next time.